Archives for
June 2008

So you’ve visited your share of virtual worlds. You’ve taken part in gameplay, and even pursued more informational things by way of an avatar and a digital space. Maybe you’ve given an online college fair a look. Well, now you might be seeking employ...

Numbers will tell whether Jerry lives or Jerry dies. Numbers alone. Many a pundit, in thumbing through press releases and press leaks aplenty the last two to three days, have repeatedly dealt fervent blows to the Yahoo head. Opinionators like Joe Noc...

Late last month, a fifteen-track music album of soft electronica was released. Free. BitTorrent was the artist’s preferred mode of transport for the final set. In that time, the story of how it came to be produced has been chronicled by the intriguin...

Want to know if/when your ISP is shorting your broadband connection through network manipulation known as throttling? Google is working to give you what you need to determine those very things. So said the company’s senior policy director Richard Whi...

It's Father's Day in most of Europe. In a few minutes...in the US too. And so, a social media experiment...blog, Twitter, Flickr or YouTube a message to the Big Guy, then post a link to it in the comments of this post....

Visual browsing of webpages and media is an increasingly attractive prospect for Internet users. Names like Viewzi, Searchme come to mind, as do inventions like Tag Galaxy and even MSNBC’s Spectra RSS news reader. This weekend, one market player, Pic...

MediaDefender, the ARTISTdirect-owned entity that’s been as friendly with big-name copyright owners as it has been a nuisance to the peer-to-peer world, has done many things that seem to many Web users to be unusual and unwarranted. Like, say, issuin...

Want to open-source your communications platform, be it email or IM or some other option? Sounds good. Want to make it easier for third parties to develop cool applications that can integrate and expand upon that platform? Sure thing. That’s already ...

So you watch the stocks. Maybe invest some of your hard earned cash in big ones like GOOG and perhaps a few oilmen, too. Perhaps you’re betting on a greener future, and have pocketed a number of shares in solar. But you’re forced to give the tickers ...

As goes the saying, only about half of Americans of voting age for the election of congressional representatives and the two heads of the executive branch actually make their way to ballot boxes ever 2-4 years. Now, however, it seems nearly the same ...

Digital media distribution is done a number of ways now. Through channels such as iTunes; streaming music and video services, like Hulu; and through producers’ own websites, to name a few. For some time there has also been the option to co-brand a me...

We’re running into the final hours of Father’s Day 2008 here in the states, and while we shared with you last week a group of 20+ tools that we deemed helpful to making this Sunday super special, we’ve just come across a new service this afternoon th...

It’s rare that I get to talk about my favorite pastime on Mashable, but when it’s also an opportunity to talk about a cool new feature on one of my favorite web sites, I’ll indulge. In case you missed it, a few minutes ago Tiger Woods concluded one o...

Even though the economy is fluctuating, to put it nicely, there's still a good amount of funding going on in the Internet-based business industry. But there are still a lot of entrepreneurs that are seeking out ways in which to get some funding in th...

Update: 'sup!! I counted two hours. You? -- Welcome to the blog-apocalypse. Weblogs Inc, the leading network of 90 or so blogs including Engadget, Tuaw and Autoblog, has racked up more than one hour of downtime so far tonight. It's incredibly rare fo...

Competition is a curious thing: you rarely choose your competitors, and they slide in and out of shot as your strategic approaches converge, diverge and intertwine over the years. Who would have thought, for instance, that Technorati, long time leade...

Jivox takes an approach to online advertising that's similar to SpotRunner's process of making television ads accessible and affordable, and has received $10.7 million in a Series A round of funding to show for it. Launched this spring with $2.7 mill...

Trusera's health social network launches today, and many that check out the new site may wonder how Trusera is different from most other health-related communities out there, such as DailyStrength and RevolutionHealth. It was the first question that ...

A darned obvious observation: sometime after November 4th's US election, we'll hit upon Political Startup Judgement Day: the time of reckoning for the hundreds - nay, thousands - of sites that owe their popularity to the ballooning buzzcloud around t...

News bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic has relaunched its website and added a few new features. With this rebirth, NowPublic is hoping to set the new standard for citizen journalism. How's that? With a trust and credibility system. Up...

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Dividend.com 20 Word Description: We are looking to become the "Consumer Report...

Our readers show us a lot of love on Digg, so we thought it might be fun to take a look back through the 50 Mashable stories that received the most votes in our history. Here you'll find everything from enormous toolbox resources to bizarre Google St...

YuMe received $9 million in funding last year, at a time when video ad networks seemed to be raking in the investment dough. Another sign of good fortune for YuMe is its recently announced partnership with Microsoft. Online video ad network YuMe has ...

Israel has a history of strength in the technology sector. It is home to many top global companies' research and development facilities, and host to companies that have produced innovative products like ICQ. Now, with the emergence of Web 2.0 we are ...

Bringing it all together. That's the theme of 2008: How to integrate multiple online accounts, activities, profiles, feeds, etc. into one comprehensive service (which is of course aside from the just as popular Web 2.0 theme of having scalability iss...

MySpace has just released a statement saying that it has won its lawsuit against Media Breakaway and its founder Scott Richter, for their spam attacks on MySpace. Last Friday, the American Arbitration Association awarded MySpace over $6 million in da...

AllRecipes is a popular site for recipe aficionados from all over, and as food prices continue to skyrocket, people are turning to it more and more for suggestions. The site has been known for its social networking aspects, and the ability to build a...

With online networks and a plethora of desktop applications connecting people across the world, there's no reason why an online store can't be better integrated into all of these platforms. That's what ShopIt thinks, at least. Given the freedom for c...

If you use iGoogle or Netvibes, I suggest you pay attention. The latest news and RSS feed aggregator to enter the “homepage” ring is Feedly. Created by the founders of DevHD, Feedly has officially launched its public beta release today. What is Feedl...

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